Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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M.P.s out of 262-applauded for one full minute when Opposition Leader Lester ("Mike'') Pearson rose to speak. But the Tories professed not to be worried. Their provincial organization in Quebec is practically nonexistent, even though they captured 50 of 75 Quebec seats in the federal House of Commons in the 1958 election. Since their ties with the old Duplessis machine were informal at best, they insist that the Liberal upset in Quebec does not really affect the Diefenbaker government's national popularity. All this is true, but Quebec itself-that proud, peculiar and partisan province...
MERRY MONARCH: THE LIFE AND LIKENESS OF CHARLES II (274 pp.)-Hesketh Pearson-Harper...
Biographer Hesketh Pearson (Dizzy, Oscar Wilde) argues persuasively for the opposite view. The Charles he describes in a witty and partisan book was a tall, swarthy man who played a powerful game of tennis, made handsome settlements on his numerous bastards, encouraged science and literature, and left England a happier and more prosperous nation than he found it. Amid religious fanaticism, he remained tolerant and humane, and his chief fault was that he forgave anybody anything. He gained his political ends by letting himself be persuaded to do what he wished. "He had a sense of reality shared...
...most energetic and terrifying of wowsers, Oliver Cromwell, was fighting the first civil war, Charles was a 16-year-old exile whose doltish father was soon to be be headed. At 21, Charles invaded England at the head of a Scots army, but his Presbyterian soldiers were more concerned, Pearson notes, with religion and robbery than fighting, and Cromwell crushed them easily. For six weeks, before he made his way to France, Charles hid out in various guises, including that of "Will Jackson," a farmer's son. In 1660, after Cromwell had died and the protectorate...
Concludes Admissions Director Pearson: "Since I may not have the floor again, I would like to ask for more courage and less double talk from secondary-school administrators...